Posts tagged "tech"

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The explore/exploit guide to your first tech job

| In Tech
| 7 minute read

A YouTube viewer reached out to me the other day after watching one of my videos. He’d just started at a big tech company and wanted to know: How do you navigate the fog? How do you figure out what to focus on? What are things to avoid?

I’ve felt that fog three times—at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and AWS. And after 27 years and countless conversations with mentees, I think there are three phases that help cut through it.

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Before you present: 7 critical checks for tech speakers

| In General
| 7 minute read

February 1998. Munich. Sun Microsystems. My first customer presentation. I stood in front of a roomful of IT professionals with a marketing deck about our “newest, better workgroup server.” I hadn’t rehearsed beyond flipping through the slides a couple of times. I didn’t know who these people were o…

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The 30-year-old trust formula that still runs the world

| In General
| 10 minute read

“To me, you’re not just Systems Engineers—you are Speaking Engineers. I’ve got plenty of engineers working on great products. However, I need you to speak to customers and earn their trust in our technology.” That was Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, talking to a room full of technical profes…